Gerry Mulligan “Line for Lyons”

Discographic Information

Instrument

bs

Total Duration

46.5 s

Position in Track

00:38-01:25

Album Title

Gerry Mulligan meets the Saxophonists

Label

Verve Records (LC0383 AAD)

Recording Date

1957-08-27

Line Up

Gerry Mulligan (bs); Paul Desmond (as); Joe Benjamin (b); Dave Bailey (dr)

Style

COOL

Key

Bb-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

a94f4e3f-bdcd-4158-9e16-5ca73e946b2f

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Bb69 Bb7 |Eb-7 Ab7 |D-7 G7 |C-7 F7 |Bbj7 G7 |C-7 F7 |Bbj7 G7 |C-7 F7 ||
A2: ||Bb69 Bb7 |Eb-7 Ab7 |D-7 G7 |C-7 F7 |Bbj7 G7 |C-7 F7 |Bbj7   |Bb7   ||
B1: ||Ebj7   |Em7b5 A7 |D-7   |G79b   |C-7   |F7   |D-7 G7 |C-7 F7 ||
A3: ||Bb69 Bb7 |Eb-7 Ab7 |D-7 G7 |C-7 F7 |Bbj7 G7 |C-7 F7 |Bbj7   |C-7 F7 ||
I1: ||Bb6 Bb7 ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

198

Number of Bars

34 bars

Number of Choruses

1

Mean Tempo

173.1 (MEDIUM UP)

Event Density

4.26 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

5.9 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.95:1

Ratio of longer to shorter eighth of beats with binary subdivision.

Metrical Centroid

4+

Mean concentration of events in the bar, rounded and normalized to 4/4.

Syncopicity

23.2 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

45-69 (24)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

46.5 %

Share of notes with direction reversal (i.e, minima and maxima of pitch contour).

Extended Chordal Diatonic Pitch Class Histogram

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Extended Chordal Diatonic Pitch Class is calculated in reference to the underlying chord.

Pitch Class Histogram

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MIDI Pitch Histogram

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Semitone Interval Histogram

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Refined Contour Histogram

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Also known as “fuzzy intervals” or interval classification. See here for definition of classes

Metrical Circle Map (N=48) Histogram

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Metrical circle maps divides the bar duration into equal sized bins (48 in this case) and maps metrical positions to the corresponding bin. (Labels normalized to 4/4 measure).

Duration Class (Abs. and Rel.) Histogram

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Relative duration classes are based on the duration of the beat. Absolute duration classes are based on 120 bpm. See here for a definition of classes.

Midlevel Analysis Main Types Histogram

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Midlevel analysis is a qualitative annotation system of playing ideas, with nine different main categories, as defined in our paper

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